[M3devel] SVN migration, also promotion

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:44:25PM +0100, Olaf Wagner wrote:
> 
> I don't think it will be furthered by switching from CVS to SVN
> or any other tool change.
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> 
> If there really is the wish within the community to switch from
> CVS to SVN, then those interested should build a team, investigate
> the impacts and propose a migration plan. Elego and me for one
> would need new server setup, the actual repository migration (which
> should preserve as much information as possible), setup of repository
> replication to two machines, integration of SVN into the regression
> test framework, setup of SVN clients, update / rewrite of all the
> repository access information and CM guidelines, and a migration
> strategy for all the existing HTTP links in search engines etc.
> 
> If I should make an estimation for this project in a commercial
> environment, I'd say it will take 3-6 months and cost a client
> between 40,000 and 80,000 Euros (that's currently 60,000 to 120,000$).
> I'd rather invest these efforts for other goals. If other CM3 users
> think it is worthwhile to do, they should just do it; after all, this
> is an open source project.

If such a group does reorganise the Modula 3 sources into a new revision 
control system, though, I'd strongly advise them to look into a 
distributed one.

-- hendrik